Tetraria.] CYPERACE® (Clarke). 279 
7 4, T. Bolusi (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
v. 659); glabrous ; rhizome (seen) slender, woody ; stems 8-12 in. 
long, tufted, slender, without any node between the lowest bract and 
the sub-basal non-fimbriate leaf-sheaths ; leaves 3-2 the length of 
ihe stem, setaceous, hemi-cylindric, scabrous-edged ; panicle 12 by 
3 In., lax, very slender, with 6-15 spikelets; bracts usually over- 
fecting a nut ; glumes subacute, not mucronate ; hypogynous bristles 
0; stamens 3 ; nut very small, hardly 2 the length of the glume, 
securely coarsely reticulated (outermost 
cells rather large, round, quadrate), crowned by the large pyramidal 
oe style-base ; style linear, branches 3, long, linear. 
OUTH AFRicA: without locali é ! lon @ her, 112! 
Coasy Region: Cape iin ts ae edt Aine ae Stellen- 
1500 f 'v.; eastern slopes of Hottentots Holland Mountains, near Grabouw, 
t., Bolus, 4230! 
- 5. T. sylvatica (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. F. 
Afr. v. 663) ; glabrous ; rhizome 1 in. in diam., horizontal; stems 
10-16 in. long, tufted, medium-sized, >; in. in diam., terete, rigid, 
without any node between the lowest bract and the sub-basal, non- 
fimbriate, bright orange-red leaf-sheaths ; leaves 4-8 by »—y; in., 
: : al 
the leaves, scarcely dilated at the base, lowest overtopping the 
<i 2-4 in.; spikelets O-1 in. pe es s 
Omewhat flattened, shining brown, very hard; empty lower glumes 
3 i * + od * . 
ae linear, Elynanthus sylvaticus, Nees in Linnea, ix. 298 ; x. 
vy: Kunth, Enum. ii, 310; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 256. 
E duritus, Neesin Linnea, ix. 298; x. 187; Kunth, Enum. ii. 309 ; 
oe var. B, Boeck, in Linnea, xxxvili. 256. 
ourE AFRICA: without localit é 945! Eekl nd Zeyher, 96! 100! 
: 3 y, Drege, 3945! Beklon an eyher, 00! 
Pasa RkGIon : Ca Div. ; near Cape Town, Schlechter, 406! Caledon Div. ; 
Schr eoe&, 2509 tt., Schlechter, 7385! Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, 1600 ft., 
Chlechter, 7655 ! 
Pg ~. ligulata (C, B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
nat 661); leat-sheaths membranous-ligulate at the top; young 
El er-glumes scarious, except the keel; otherwise as T. sylvatica, 
ynanthus ligulatus, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 262. 
0TH ArxIcA: without locality. 
i whole material is an example in Herb. Berlin without precise locality or 
of collector, and very young, The plant might be a young state of T. 
